The only variable is what "X" is in terms of cadets. We can derive that from the records of those players who have been promoted. A bit tricky, as you have to go back into the records of each Colonel's opponents and see what rank they were at the time, but I think I've figured it out.

Hint: fjetzt was promoted after playing (and winning) against a Cadet and he'd played at least 250 battles as Lt. Colonel.

So now we have to keep track of battles played too... This is becoming a record keeping nightmare. I really wish we could get rid of the last 15 days spreadsheet and combine it into a 2011 spreadsheet. Or I'll have to start keeping my own...

Now that we've solved this one it's time for the next promotion level I would think.

Actually, I'm hoping to skip right past Colonel and go straight on to General...

Here's a thought regarding the requirements for the next promotion. Memoir '44 now allows us to post a scenario in the public forum. (BTW, I particulary like Nygaard's but haven't played them all yet). I'll wager that in order to make General, you'll need to post a scenario and have it played "X" number of times.

Actually, I'm hoping to skip right past Colonel and go straight on to General...

Here's a thought regarding the requirements for the next promotion. Memoir '44 now allows us to post a scenario in the public forum. (BTW, I particulary like Nygaard's but haven't played them all yet). I'll wager that in order to make General, you'll need to post a scenario and have it played "X" number of times.

I mean, isn't planning the battle itself what Generals do?

Good Luck!

But they've told us many times that the only battles that count for promotions and acheivements are the official ones. But perhaps that only applies to wins and losses.

Added detail on Col. fjetzt and his work as a Lt. Col. You will see that yes, he surpassed the minimum 250 game requirement, but only in the last day (the 19th) did he finally win as a Lt. Col. his first game for the following sides and scenarios:

I do not think it is a coincidence that these are the ONLY scenarios he targeted on the 19th, including 8 straight games trying to prevent the liberation of Paris (altho he fairly played both sides in those 8 games when he only needed the Axis side).

So while this supports the conclusion that you must win scenarios from each side as a Lt. Col., I should also point out that he never played or won as a Lt. Col. in Arracourt, Twin Villages, Tunisia, Lisyanka, and Warsaw (not unexpected), and he never won 3 sides from 3 other scenarios.

So either all of these are late add scenarios to their theaters of operation or the formula is still not quite tweaked down.

The idea of having to win all scenarios from both sides still is not logical, though, because there are over 200 official scenarios, and they may all be available a year from now.

I can see a requirement for a specified number of wins for each side in each theater. I can see a further requirement that they come from a minimum number of different scenarios. But "all" is not workable in the long run.

You're right, Sam, in that "all" are not possible. In fact, we've already found that to become a Lt. Col. some of the newly created for on-line use scenarios do not count toward the requirement of 10 wins per side per theater. So when we say win all scenarios at least once from each side, it's knowing that DOW is looking for a certain subset at the time the requirements were created.

And then there were 9! I want to offer a sincere thanks to those that did all the hard work of earning the first Colonel rankings and helping to give me an idea of what it might take to achieve this.

Congratulations... on all your hard work and successful promotion!

I'm not sure how much people should be thanking me, since it now looks as if you don't have to win every scenario. Someone was probably unnecessarily struggling with Breakout to Klin or Gallabat and Metemma because of my theory.

Added detail on Col. fjetzt and his work as a Lt. Col. You will see that yes, he surpassed the minimum 250 game requirement, but only in the last day (the 19th) did he finally win as a Lt. Col. his first game for the following sides and scenarios:

I do not think it is a coincidence that these are the ONLY scenarios he targeted on the 19th, including 8 straight games trying to prevent the liberation of Paris (altho he fairly played both sides in those 8 games when he only needed the Axis side).

So while this supports the conclusion that you must win scenarios from each side as a Lt. Col., I should also point out that he never played or won as a Lt. Col. in Arracourt, Twin Villages, Tunisia, Lisyanka, and Warsaw (not unexpected), and he never won 3 sides from 3 other scenarios.

This seems to say that you need to win a certain number of scenarios from both sides (or either), but not all of them...

Wow....I'm really surprised to hear that Suomussalmi is one of the last ones still left. For me it's Klin and Moscow as the Allies and Arnehm and Gallabat & Metemma as the Axis that typically require a ton of tries.

I left Eastern Front for last...so I've only tried Suomussalmi once so far as a colonel. That should not be so difficult to win as the Russians. Gates of Moscow is slightly more difficult, and I don't think I need comment on the difficulty of Klin as the Russians.

Also, I need to keep working towards that Axis Aces High medal as well as get more comfortable with Warsaw and Rzhev.

I left Eastern Front for last...so I've only tried Suomussalmi once so far as a colonel. That should not be so difficult to win as the Russians. Gates of Moscow is slightly more difficult, and I don't think I need comment on the difficulty of Klin as the Russians.

Also, I need to keep working towards that Axis Aces High medal as well as get more comfortable with Warsaw and Rzhev.

Geoff

Most of my wins are in the Western front and I need a lot of Eastern front games (and Mediterranean and Pacific). Invite me if you see me on!

For a grand total of 146 wins out of 234 games (62%). Not bad since I'm trying to win them all and have played the difficult side slightly more often.

Since the promotions are supposed to get more difficult to obtain and we needed to play 250 games to get Colonel, I would assume that I'm nowhere close to the requirements for the next rank. Hopefully, we'll have some more information soon (at which point, I will start a new thread...)

won every scenario from both sides since promotion to Lt.Col.
won every new scenario from both sides

am not sure about total number of games, much less than 250, i think, but I had 160 total victories since promotion. I got promoted after 163rd, but in the last battles I played the new scenarios a few times, so it could be 160. I also wonder how the games are counted when your opponent quits, and you finish playing against AI. Do they count towards the promotion, or not?
I had a few of these recently...